These stories always hinge on interpreting Elon Musk's tweets of saying what a product will do about being an advertisement for what it currently does and making that into a safety issue, despite the actual features being opt-in and warning you very clearly when enabled.
Also very often this is conflating the several different option packages which do different things so that you can make a crash on lane keeping assist sound like it's a crash of a "full self-driving" system.
I don't know, I don't think there are many smoking gun claims of Tesla over-advertising the current features. Hyping the future ones, yes. But always with a caveat that it's in the future. ("Soon" is in the future!) This article and the articles it references exclude those caveats from the quotes, so they sound juicer than they are.
Good to look into I guess, but I doubt this investigation will come up with too much dirty laundry. I also don't think the company would be in deep trouble even if they got the book thrown at them.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 18.2 ms ] threadAlso very often this is conflating the several different option packages which do different things so that you can make a crash on lane keeping assist sound like it's a crash of a "full self-driving" system.
I don't know, I don't think there are many smoking gun claims of Tesla over-advertising the current features. Hyping the future ones, yes. But always with a caveat that it's in the future. ("Soon" is in the future!) This article and the articles it references exclude those caveats from the quotes, so they sound juicer than they are.
Good to look into I guess, but I doubt this investigation will come up with too much dirty laundry. I also don't think the company would be in deep trouble even if they got the book thrown at them.